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Katie Melua has confessed that she was financially “clueless and
inexperienced” when she invested £850,000 in a massive tax avoidance scheme
alongside Sir Michael Caine and the musician Gary Barlow.

The Times revealed this week that the singer joined the secretive
Liberty tax scheme in the same year that she publicly extolled the virtues
of paying tax.

More than 1,600 wealthy investors, including Anne Robinson, George Michael,
all four current members of the band Arctic Monkeys, and a loan shark
convicted of rape, attempted to shelter £1.2 billion through Liberty. The
legal tax scheme has been under HMRC investigation since